Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 -24
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,990 1,917 2,554
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.96% 3.89% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 4.33% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 956 1,814
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -6.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,889 44,229 70,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.64% 81.30%
Number of salaries quoted 51,640 25,065 47,390
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 1,746 £75,000 +3.45% 761
UK excluding London -40 1,078 £65,000 -7.14% 416
Work from Home -21 885 £67,500 -3.57% 378
London -16 776 £85,000 +3.03% 444
North of England -40 374 £70,000 - 125
South East +7 292 £65,000 -7.14% 135
North West -51 199 £75,000 +7.14% 70
South West -37 124 £57,500 -8.00% 47
Midlands -66 101 £66,250 -1.85% 57
North East +24 92 £65,000 +18.18% 25
Yorkshire -9 83 £60,000 -16.66% 30
West Midlands -43 74 £78,750 +12.50% 37
Wales -15 57 £70,000 +34.62% 11
Northern Ireland -20 57 £66,250 +32.50% 10
East of England -33 43 £60,100 -3.84% 16
Scotland -64 32 £60,000 -23.87% 22
East Midlands -60 26 £64,000 +6.67% 20
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 37 (1.86%) Confluence
2 25 (1.26%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.80%) CMS
4 14 (0.70%) Apache
4 14 (0.70%) IIS
5 11 (0.55%) Camunda
6 9 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.40%) JBoss
7 8 (0.40%) WordPress
8 7 (0.35%) nginx
8 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.25%) Drupal
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.20%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.20%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.15%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.55%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.30%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
2 6 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.10%) Shopify
6 1 (0.050%) Eikon
6 1 (0.050%) RMDS
6 1 (0.050%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,028 (51.66%) AWS
2 862 (43.32%) Azure
3 324 (16.28%) GCP
4 265 (13.32%) Serverless
5 243 (12.21%) GitHub
6 186 (9.35%) SaaS
7 171 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
8 133 (6.68%) AWS Lambda
9 115 (5.78%) Amazon S3
10 110 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
11 102 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
12 101 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 91 (4.57%) Azure Service Bus
14 80 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
15 67 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
16 64 (3.22%) Amazon SQS
16 64 (3.22%) Azure AKS
17 51 (2.56%) PaaS
18 48 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.76%) Broadband
2 24 (1.21%) Network Security
3 15 (0.75%) MQTT
4 13 (0.65%) DMARC
5 11 (0.55%) DNS
6 8 (0.40%) Firewall
6 8 (0.40%) Internet
6 8 (0.40%) VPN
7 7 (0.35%) AMQP
7 7 (0.35%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.30%) DHCP
8 6 (0.30%) HTTP
8 6 (0.30%) RFID
8 6 (0.30%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.20%) LTE
10 3 (0.15%) Modbus
11 1 (0.050%) LAN
11 1 (0.050%) NAS
11 1 (0.050%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 226 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (10.05%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 159 (7.99%) Elasticsearch
6 124 (6.23%) MySQL
7 110 (5.53%) SQL Server
8 93 (4.67%) Relational Database
9 65 (3.27%) Redis
10 51 (2.56%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.56%) Big Data
13 21 (1.06%) RDBMS
14 17 (0.85%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.65%) Pinecone
16 12 (0.60%) Db2
16 12 (0.60%) DTS
17 11 (0.55%) Data Lake
18 10 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 253 (12.71%) Git
2 188 (9.45%) GitLab
3 162 (8.14%) Jenkins
4 61 (3.07%) JIRA
5 58 (2.91%) JUnit
6 57 (2.86%) TeamCity
7 45 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 35 (1.76%) Mockito
9 34 (1.71%) Cypress.io
10 32 (1.61%) Claude Code
11 27 (1.36%) Maven
12 24 (1.21%) Selenium
13 22 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 20 (1.01%) CircleCI
15 18 (0.90%) SonarQube
16 14 (0.70%) Postman
17 13 (0.65%) JMeter
17 13 (0.65%) Spock
18 12 (0.60%) REST Assured
18 12 (0.60%) Vite
General
1 485 (24.37%) Finance
2 371 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 205 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 172 (8.64%) Banking
5 127 (6.38%) Law
6 126 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 117 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (5.78%) Retail
9 74 (3.72%) Legal
10 58 (2.91%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.36%) Marketing
12 43 (2.16%) Back Office
13 29 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.41%) Legal Technology
15 26 (1.31%) Aerospace
16 22 (1.11%) Advertising
17 21 (1.06%) Games
18 19 (0.95%) Telecoms
19 18 (0.90%) Front Office
20 14 (0.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 744 (37.39%) Developer
2 476 (23.92%) Senior
3 358 (17.99%) Software Engineer
4 310 (15.58%) Lead
5 271 (13.62%) Architect
6 207 (10.40%) .NET Developer
7 174 (8.74%) Senior Developer
8 157 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 149 (7.49%) Java Developer
10 134 (6.73%) Java Engineer
11 120 (6.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 112 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 100 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
14 99 (4.97%) Principal Engineer
15 82 (4.12%) Software Developer
16 73 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.52%) Lead Developer
18 64 (3.22%) Lead Software Engineer
19 55 (2.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 54 (2.71%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (27.19%) .NET
2 430 (21.61%) React
3 414 (20.80%) Node.js
4 329 (16.53%) Spring
5 303 (15.23%) Spring Boot
6 287 (14.42%) RESTful
7 266 (13.37%) REST
8 246 (12.36%) Kafka
9 237 (11.91%) ASP.NET
10 216 (10.85%) .NET Core
11 213 (10.70%) AngularJS
12 209 (10.50%) Vue
13 194 (9.75%) ASP.NET Core
14 114 (5.73%) Blazor
15 107 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
16 99 (4.97%) .NET Framework
17 94 (4.72%) HTML
18 89 (4.47%) CSS
19 78 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
20 71 (3.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 601 (30.20%) Cloud Native
2 345 (17.34%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 101 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
5 94 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
6 64 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 56 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
8 42 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 41 (2.06%) AI Agents
10 39 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
11 36 (1.81%) Over-the-Top Content
12 33 (1.66%) Virtual Team
13 32 (1.61%) e-Learning
14 29 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
15 25 (1.26%) Algorithms
15 25 (1.26%) Data Structures
16 24 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
17 23 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
18 19 (0.95%) Management Information System
19 18 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.48%) Linux
2 47 (2.36%) Windows
3 21 (1.06%) CentOS
3 21 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (1.06%) Unix
4 7 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.25%) AIX
6 4 (0.20%) Debian
6 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.10%) Android
7 2 (0.10%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.050%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,038 (52.16%) CI/CD
2 948 (47.64%) Agile
3 705 (35.43%) DevOps
3 705 (35.43%) Software Engineering
4 569 (28.59%) Full-Stack Development
5 476 (23.92%) Mentoring
6 425 (21.36%) Containerisation
7 420 (21.11%) Event-Driven
8 419 (21.06%) AI
9 403 (20.25%) Test Automation
10 394 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 380 (19.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 356 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
13 281 (14.12%) Scrum
14 267 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
15 264 (13.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 245 (12.31%) TDD
17 220 (11.06%) Clean Code
18 212 (10.65%) Coaching
18 212 (10.65%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 653 (32.81%) Java
2 556 (27.94%) C#
3 492 (24.72%) SQL
4 473 (23.77%) Python
5 449 (22.56%) JavaScript
6 366 (18.39%) TypeScript
7 112 (5.63%) Go
8 50 (2.51%) Ruby
9 45 (2.26%) Scala
10 44 (2.21%) C++
11 41 (2.06%) PHP
12 39 (1.96%) Bash
13 26 (1.31%) Bicep
14 25 (1.26%) PowerShell
15 24 (1.21%) Rust
16 21 (1.06%) C
17 17 (0.85%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.80%) Kotlin
19 12 (0.60%) Groovy
20 11 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 271 (13.62%) Security Cleared
2 182 (9.15%) SC Cleared
3 178 (8.94%) Degree
4 83 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (3.62%) DV Cleared
6 69 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 42 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (1.21%) CISSP
9 20 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.90%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.50%) CISM
13 10 (0.50%) DBS Check
13 10 (0.50%) PhD
14 9 (0.45%) MBA
15 5 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
16 4 (0.20%) GIAC
16 4 (0.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (10.15%) QA
2 77 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.91%) GDPR
5 32 (1.61%) WCAG
6 21 (1.06%) SOC 2
7 20 (1.01%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.95%) NIST
9 16 (0.80%) NCSC
10 15 (0.75%) GRC
11 10 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.40%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.25%) PSD2
15 5 (0.25%) SEPA
16 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 570 (28.64%) Docker
2 29 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.25%) NDS
5 4 (0.20%) Firmware
6 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.10%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.050%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 606 (30.45%) Kubernetes
2 353 (17.74%) Terraform
3 112 (5.63%) Ansible
4 94 (4.72%) Grafana
5 58 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.26%) Argo
7 18 (0.90%) Puppet
8 17 (0.85%) Kibana
9 16 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (0.65%) Cilium
11 8 (0.40%) HP Fortify
12 6 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.20%) Packer
13 4 (0.20%) Podman
14 2 (0.10%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.10%) MIIS
14 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.10%) Rancher
15 1 (0.050%) logstash
15 1 (0.050%) Nagios
Vendors
1 319 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.42%) Google
3 65 (3.27%) Oracle
4 39 (1.96%) OpenAI
5 36 (1.81%) Typelevel
6 32 (1.61%) Splunk
7 25 (1.26%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.16%) IBM
9 21 (1.06%) AppDynamics
10 20 (1.01%) Databricks
11 16 (0.80%) Okta
12 15 (0.75%) ForgeRock
13 13 (0.65%) Adobe
13 13 (0.65%) OneLogin
13 13 (0.65%) SendGrid
14 12 (0.60%) Salesforce
15 11 (0.55%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.55%) SAP
16 10 (0.50%) ServiceNow
17 8 (0.40%) OpenText